True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
HENRY JAMESTry to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
More Henry James Quotes
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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